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Gidget (1965)

Season 1

1966AllSubtitles and Closed Captions

Sally Field is "Gidget" Lawrence, a perky 15-year-old Southern California girl who loves to surf and longs for romance. With the help of her widower dad (Don Porter) and best friend (Lynette Winter), Gidget relies on her boundless enthusiasm to triumph over the conventional wisdom of the adults in her life, making the series a fun-filled frolic on California's beaches.

Episodes (32)

1. Dear Diary -- Et Al

Not available25 minutesSeptember 15, 1965AllSubtitles

Gidget Lawrence, fifteen and a half years old, falls in love with Jeff, a college student, and takes up surfing to be with him. However, Gidget's married sister, Anne, upset that her little sister is staying out all night, reads her diary and misinterprets its contents.

2. In God, And Nobody Else, We Trust

Not available25 minutesSeptember 22, 1965AllSubtitles

Gidget tells Russ she hasn't a date for Saturday's Luau and convinces her brother-in-law John to accompany her. John tries to fit in with the teenagers, but his behavior puts them off.

3. Great Kahuna, The

Not available25 minutesSeptember 29, 1965AllSubtitles

Gidget falls for,twenty-eight year old Cass Cobb, known as surfer legend Great Kahuna. She's even conviced Russ to invite him over. She soon finds out that Kahuna is not that interesting when not at the beach.

4. Daddy Come Home

Not available25 minutesOctober 6, 1965AllSubtitles

Convinced by his daugther Gidget to visit the beach, Russell there becomes infatuated with Sally Combs, an attractive woman in her mid-thirties. Gidget becomes alarmed by her father's interest in Sally, especially when Larue refers to Sally as a gold digger.

5. Gidget Gadget

Not available25 minutesOctober 13, 1965AllSubtitles

Anne leaves John, claiming that he is so involved in his studies that he completely ignores her. With Anne taking over her room, constantly criticizing her and tying up the phone, Gidget searches for a way to get Anne to return to John.

6. Hearse, A Hearse, My Kingdom For A Hearse, A

Not available25 minutesOctober 20, 1965AllSubtitles

Determined to have her own car, Gidget signs a deal with an untrustworthy man and, much to the irritation of her father and classmates, signs up for mechanics in school.

7. Gidget Is A Proper Noun

Not available25 minutesOctober 27, 1965AllSubtitles

Gidget feels that her teacher Hardy treats her tougher than the other students because she is the daughter of an English professor. She comes up with a scheme, which soon backfires.

8. Image Scrimmage

Not available25 minutesNovember 2, 1965AllSubtitles

Gidget falls for Larue's sophisticated New Yorker cousin Roger Haimes. Frustrated by Roger treating her as if she were a child, she starts acting as mature as possible.

9. Is It Love Or Symbiosis

Not available25 minutesNovember 10, 1965AllSubtitles

Feeling her sister isn't ladylike enough, Anne convinces Russell to enroll Gidget in a girls' school in France. Gidget, thinking her father wants back his freedom, pretends she's fine with the decision.

10. All The Best Diseases Are Taken

Not available25 minutesNovember 17, 1965AllSubtitles

When protest singer Billy Roy Soames comes to town, Gidget gets inspired by his activism. In her own twist, Gidget and Larue get Billy Roy involved in a protest to lower unfair movie ticket prices.

11. My Ever Faithful...Friend

Not available25 minutesNovember 24, 1965AllSubtitles

After Larue gets put down by a girl at the beach, Gidget decides Larue needs a make-over. Larue is more interested in an old horse that she wants to buy. Russ tries to help, and Gidget thinks her friend and her Dad are an item.

12. Chivalry Isn't Dead

Not available25 minutesDecember 1, 1965AllSubtitles

After a talk with her Dad, Gidget decides that her boyfriend, Mark, needs to learn a little chivalry. Gidget and her girlfriends all gather at her house for a pajama party to teach all their boyfriends a lesson.

13. War Between Men, Women And Gidget, The

Not available25 minutesDecember 8, 1965AllSubtitles

A battle for a new surfing beach causes problems between Gidget and her boyfriend Brett. Gidget uses medical subterfuge to get him back from her rival Patty.

14. Gidget's Foreign Policy

Not available25 minutesDecember 15, 1965AllSubtitles

Inge, a Swedish college student, stays with the Lawrence's until the dorms open. She changes from meek to wild and steals all the boys - especially Gidget's boyfriend Mark. Gidget fumes until Inga's fiancé Gunnar shows up.

15. Now There's A Face

Not available25 minutesDecember 22, 1965AllSubtitles

Gidget becomes the inspiration for photography student Tom Brighton. All goes well until Gidget realizes that she wants to be more than his model.

16. Too Many Cooks

Not available25 minutesDecember 29, 1965AllSubtitles

While Gidget's true love, Jeff, is away at college, Gidget enjoys herself by dating the feuding Cook cousins. She happily finds out that Jeff, is coming home for the Founder's Day dance, but then realizes she has three dates for the dance.

17. I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Think

Not available25 minutesJanuary 5, 1966AllSubtitles

With Jeff back at Princeton, Gidget prepares for a lonely existence. Then she develops a crush for an older surf bum she meets at the beach. All is fine until it turns out he's her new math teacher.

18. Like Voodoo

Not available25 minutesJanuary 13, 1966AllSubtitles

After Gidget's surfboard is stolen, she is cursed by the gypsy Zangara, who is trying to sell it.

19. Gidget's Career

Not available24 minutesJanuary 20, 1966AllSubtitles

Determined to push Larue into popularity, Gidget gets her involved with Paul and Doug who are forming a singing group. Larue starts playing the guitar, but the boys only want Gidget, even if she only bangs a tambourine.

20. Ego A Go Go

Not available25 minutesJanuary 27, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget makes a date with Durf the Drag to buck up his ego. She creates an ego-driven monster and he cancels their date. Then she discovers that Russ is helping Chuck Batson (guest star Richard Dreyfuss), a gorgeous six-foot-three, to master grammar so he'll be eligible to quarterback the college team. Gidget's interest in Durf's ego drops rapidly as she schemes to get Chuck to take her to the Hop.

21. In And Out With The In-Laws

Not available25 minutesFebruary 3, 1966AllSubtitles

An invitation to meet Jef's parents is music to Gidget's ears, and the song she's hearing is the "Wedding March." However, mixed-up identities and switched sweaters cause qyite a comotion.

22. We Got Each Other

Not available25 minutesFebruary 10, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget starts worrying when her friend, Toby, criticizes her close relationship with her father. Discussing it with Larue, Gidget concludes she might be jealous of her father's dates, but set's out to prove that she doesn't mind.

23. Operation Shaggy Dog

Not available25 minutesFebruary 17, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget and Russ are on opposite sides of the battle to close the "Shaggy Dog," a hamburger shack and hangout for Gidget's crowd.

24. Ringa-Ding-Dingbat

Not available25 minutesFebruary 24, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget's rock-and-roll idols, The Dingbats, are in town on Mysterious business, and Gidget knows where they're staying. She's determined to meet them, but by the time she reaches the estate where the Dingbats are hiding, many of her friends know where they are.

25. Love And The Single Gidget

Not available25 minutesMarch 3, 1966AllSubtitles

While Russ is out of town, GIdget goes to a surfing tournament with her sister and brother-in-law's blessing. They don't quite trust her though and hire Scott Baker, a UCLA halfback, twenty-five dollars to watch over her.

26. Take A Lesson

Not available24 minutesMarch 10, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget is lured out of the house, in her pajamas, by the Marshall's to go on a surprise car buying trip for her friend Shirley. However, she's left Russ at home frantic, and then spends the whole trip stopping to call her father to let him know what's happening.

27. Independence-Gidget Style

Not available25 minutesMarch 16, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget determines to surprise Russ with an expensive camera for his birthday, so she gets a job at the new teenage discotheque to pay for it. Unfortunately, the family suspects that she is working a someplace a little racier.

28. One More For The Road

Not available25 minutesMarch 23, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget gets a part time job in Franklin Whiting's florist shop driving a deliver truck. There's just one problem, she doesn'thave a driver's license.

29. Ask Helpful Hannah

Not available25 minutesMarch 30, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget decides that "Ask Helpful Hannah," the advice column in the school paper isn't the least bit helpful. When the writer quits, Peggy Bell, the editor, and Miss Beckley, the faculty advisor, persuade Gidget to take over the assignment. After she takes over, the "Helpful Hannah" column only results in several unfortunate mix ups.

30. Hard Night's Night, A

Not available25 minutesApril 6, 1966AllSubtitles

With Russ on his way to San Francisco, Gidget is home alone... or so she thinks. Gidget finds herself unknowingly sharing the house with her father's friend, Stewart.

31. I Have This Friend Who

Not available25 minutesApril 13, 1966AllSubtitles

Gidget and Toby Whitley would really have a wonderful time together if Toby's father, Professor Mel Whitley didn't insist on turning their dates into threesomes. When Toby forbids Gidget from discussing the problem with Russ, she goes to John for advice. When Gidget begins with "I have this friend who..." John concludes that Gidget is talking about her own relationship with Russ.

32. Don't Defrost The Alligator

Not available25 minutesApril 20, 1966AllSubtitles

When Charley, a tiny alligator belonging to young Dewey Seldon dies, Gidget puts it into the Lawrence freezer in a casserole until the boy gets permission to preserve his pet. Anne takes a frozen casserole home for dinner. Gidget discovers Charley is missing and thinks Anne is cooking him for dinner.